Stacey Dooley embeds herself right on the front line in a new documentary that sees her waking up in Northern Iraq fearing for her life.

In September, the presenter and her team travelled to the war-torn country to spend two weeks with an all–female Yazidi battalion being trained to take revenge against ISIS - whose fighters massacred thousands of members of the ethnic minority community when they swept into Iraq's Sinjar province in the summer of 2014.

The Luton-born TV presenter, 29, says she thought, 'this is it... I'm going to get shot by ISIS', while filming at the training camp with the female fighters.

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Stacey Dooley joins Yazidi Peshmerga Commander Xati on a trip through the destroyed town of Sinjar, northern Iraq during her time on the frontline for her latest documentary

The 29-year-old TV presenter says she was inspired by the brave Yazidi women she met in Iraq

Stacey, seen while living at the training camp, is still in touch with the female Yazidi soldiers

Stacey finds a riffle in her bunk bed in the a military training camp she stayed in for two weeks alongside around 40 young women soldiers

‘It sounds really "right on" but, I will never take for granted what a privilege it is to live in a society where we’re not constantly frightened all of the time,' Stacey explained at a screening of the film, 'Stacey on the Frontline: Guns, Girls and ISIS'.

‘It’s so surreal, it’s like waking up and for the first three or five seconds I didn’t remember where I was. For those three or five seconds I wasn’t scared, and then as soon as I remembered I was instantly scared again.

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'This is two and a half weeks, the girls have been living like this for two and a half years. That is something I will never forget. Being on the front line, that was just so surreal.

'I had a saga within my own mind, because I really wanted to show these viewers where these girls would end up, but you know when you think “This is it, I’m going to get shot by ISIS. My mum is going to go nuts she thinks I’m in Turkey… The office is going to go loopy”.

Stacey joins the Yazidi women in a morning training session at their camp which is located at a former secondary school that was bombed by ISIS

Stacey, seen watching the Yazidi women as they practice firing on a military shooting range, has said that she would like to think she would do the same as them

Stacey reports from the front line in Sinjar, where the all-female Yazidi Peshmerga women are positioned

‘You’re having to deal with this big saga, and you think “You voluntarily got on the plane, you got yourself here”. What sort of idiot runs in the direction that everyone else is fleeing from?

'But overall I am so, so made up I did it. I was so apprehensive about doing it and thought over it for a couple of days.'

In 2014, 50,000 Yazidi people fled their ancestral lands in Northern Iraq to Mount Sinjar away from the advance of ISIS. Without food and water thousands died on the mountain and the ones left behind were massacred or captured. More than 5,000 women were taken to be used as sex slaves, with an estimated 2,000 women remaining in captivity.

Stacey gets stuck into training after waking up first thing in the morning. She recalls the moments she would wake up and for a few seconds forget the danger she was in

The women at the training camp had been recruited by the renowned former Yazidi singer Xate Shingali, who has transformed them into brave fighters.

Stacey has made 50 films for the BBC ever since she featured in the reality show Blood, Sweat and T-shirts

‘It did become very immersive and very intimate very quickly.

‘We went in as a team, as like a girl gang. It took a couple of days for the girls to figure us out and decide whether or not they were going to entertain us, luckily they did. In terms of the girls themselves, there were not many obstacles. It was just logisitics and geography [that] were the main issues.

'It was a joy to spend time with the girls, they were a total pleasure. I think what is so inspirational about them girls is the fact that they are still very soft, very tactile, very kind and very young in so many ways. The war hasn’t hardened them.

In the film Stacey listens intently as the trainees tearfully describe the horrors they witnessed during the genocide, none more gruesome than one young woman who explains how she was forced to watch one Jihadi fighter decapitate a crying baby.

‘That’s the trickiest part from a personal perspective, obviously we are desperate to tell these stories because they’re so horrific. You cannot believe that the world isn’t talking about this. It’s important to be as frank and as detailed as possible,' she said.

Stacey plants herself in a warzone to get the real story of the women who are fighting against ISIS who brutally murdered their families

'The girls are desperate to talk, they want to say they’ve had enough and have been through x, y and z and now it’s time for us to sort of live the lives that we want to. It’s a very delicate balance, you have to try and take into consideration that some of them are still recovering.

'Some of them have lost every single person that they loved and they are just human beings. There were some times when they really wanted to talk and you would just run with it and there were other times when they would burst into floods of tears and they wouldn’t even be coherent.'

It's two years after the harrowing genocide that Stacey visits the female fighters, and for her the thought of being in the same position as the young women crosses her mind.

'The girls are desperate to talk, they want to say they’ve had enough and have been through x, y and z and now it’s time for us to sort of live the lives that we want to,' Stacey explains

‘I was saying to the girls, that you like to think that you would do the admirable thing. Well what you would assume to be the admirable thing, to kind of stand up for what you believe in.

'But the reality is it feels impossible for these girls for so much of the time. I wanted to make this film because I think people are so hostile towards people that are coming into this country fleeing war, and it is just luck of the draw in terms of where you were born.

'You can’t help but... put yourself in their situation… I would like to think I would be brave enough to stay and fight, but in reality I am not as strong as [these] girls.'

Stacey reveals that she and the team are still in touch with some of the 40 or so girls who feature in the documentary: ‘We are, we get voice notes off the girls. As you can imagine my Kurdish is not quite fluent and their English is quite limited, its ‘I love you’, ‘How are you?’, that’s the extent of the conversation.

The presenter talks to a Yazidi ISIS survivor about her decision to take up arms to fight ISIS, and reveals the harrowing sights she has seen

'But we know that some of the girls are now fighting, they’re on the front line and others are waiting until they are called up.

‘I’m desperate now to continue telling stories that are really important. I think especially the world at the moment is so nuts, and war is ruining so many people’s lives...

'When you’re at home making a cup of tea and it comes on the news it kind of passes you by and the numbers and images feel so, so far away.

'But I think when it’s emotive and you put a human in front of you and say tell us your story, it kind of highlights and emphasises how nuts this is.'

Stacey on the Frontline: Girls, Guns and ISIS is available on BBC Three online, Thursday 17th November